4
Order of Leitbur
4 Order of the White Shield
2 Phyrexian War Beast
4 Savannah Lions
2 Serra Angel
4 White Knight
1 Armageddon
1 Balance
4 Disenchant
1 Sleight of Mind
1 Land Tax
1 Lodestone Bauble
1 Reinforcements
1 Reprisal
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Zuran Orb
4
Adarkar Wastes
1 Kjeldoran Outpost
4 Mishra's Factories
11 Plains
4 Strip Mine |
  White
Weenie (1996).
Description of deck by Brian
David-Marshall @ www.magicthegathering.com (quoted):
 How
do you decide whether a creature is efficient? A measure of a creature's
efficiency is the ratio between its power and its casting cost. Tom
Chanpheng featured what is undoubtedly the most efficient creature ever
to show up in a White Weenie deck when he won the 1996 Magic World
Championship with the following deck.
The efficient card I am referring to is Savannah Lions. For a single
white mana, Tom was able to play a 2/1 creature on the first turn of the
game with twelve creatures to back it up on the following turn (fifteen
if you count the other three Lions). Two points of power for one mana is
virtually unheard of in newer Magic expansions and there is a good
reason for that. Quite simply, it creates decks that are too fast for
slower decks to be viable. Today, the best you are going to do is a 2/1
or a 2/2 for two mana.
Tom's deck played more mana than you would normally expect to find in a
White Weenie deck. That is due to the presence of some more expensive
spells like Serra Angel and the plains-eating Kjeldoran Outpost. It's
hard to imagine building a deck like this in today's environment because
the deck uses absolutely broken cards, like Zuran Orb, Land Tax, and
Balance, that were restricted to a single copy per deck. What we can
take from it is its reliance on inexpensive creatures with a good
power-to-casting-cost ratio and a few late-game, back-breaking
creatures.
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